Bernie Sanders has won the West Virginia primary in the Democratic race for the presidential nomination, US media project.

    "We now have won primaries and caucuses in 19 states," Sanders said at a rally in Salem, Oregon Tuesday. "Let me be as clear as I can be. We are in this campaign to win the Democratic nomination." "While we have many disagreements with Secretary Clinton, there is one area where we agree and that is we must defeat Donald Trump," the (CNN) quoted Sanders as saying.

    The Vermont senator's triumph does little to change the overall shape of the race. Clinton still enjoys a lead of nearly 300 pledged delegates and appears on course to formally clinch the nomination in the final round of big state primaries, including in California and New Jersey next month.

    Trump cruised to an easy victory in West Virginia and Nebraska, CNN projects, bringing him nearly 100 delegates away from the the 1,237 threshold he must clear to officially close out the GOP nominating race. The GOP primary effectively ended last week with Trump's victory in Indiana that knocked Texas Sen. Ted Cruz out of the race.

Source: QNA